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On the recordApril 12, 2011
So we have got a system where we have a cost-benefit ratio system that will never allow many of these States to ever get into the funding stream.
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Lisa Murkowski
Republican · Alaska

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Murkowski criticizes the cost-benefit ratio system affecting state funding.

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